St. Landry democrat., 1887-05-07

OpELOUSAS. LOUISIANA
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
JAMES H. MARI, who had been in the
Post-Oftice Department at Washington
since 1881, died on the 25th.
THE Nova Scotia Legislature has a flood
of grievances of the colony before 1t, on
which the members of the body do deal
of batting
The trouble between Lord Lansdowne
and his tenants has been settled, and Ed
itor O Brien of United Ireland did not sail
for Canada.
THE Vermont Supreme Court has de-
cided that conspiracy among workmen
to keep others from working is crime at
common law.
JAKE SuARP's trial has been set down
peremptorilv by Judge Van runt, sitting
in the New York Court of Oyer and Ter
miner, for May II.
ONE Lindley Murray, of New York, has
issued pamphlet, in which he lays claim
to Sl5, 900, 900 worth Of the Reading Rail-
road Companys coal lands.
SIX THOUSAND Belfast shipbuilders
threaten to strike unless they are paid
-, ipo Of "
pected the masters will accede to the de-
mand.
SENIOR OLIvARRIA the newly appointed
Venezuelan Minister, arrived in w ashing-
ton on the o3i. and called on Secretary
Bayard, accompanied by the retiring
Minister Senr Soteldo.
RESPONSES from all parts of the coun-
try, called out by recent publications con-
corning the President, show a great pre-
Donderance of feeling among Democrats in
favor of his re-ele elton.
TIE Pope has sent confidential note to
France and Germany rendering his serv-
ices as mediator between the two govern
ments in the dispute growing out of the
arrest of M. Schnaebeles.
COLONEL DoRSHEIMER, Of the New ork
Star, says that he persuaded President
Cleveland out Of the notion of making a
public declaration that he would not run
again for the Presidency.
LORD LANsDowNE has recalled the &C
cepSance of his Irish rent compromise and
the tenant troubles are renewed William
O'Brien now announces that he will posi-
lively invade Canada at once.
THE recent storm proved very dcstruc-
tive to stock in Northwestern Iowa. Over
one hundred head were frozen in Palo
Alto County The stock were grazing
when, blinded by the storm, they strayed
off and persisted
A CLASH has occurred in Baltimore,
Md, between the Catholics and Protest
ants over the donation of a hospital
franchise by the City Council, and the
mayor now finds himself between two
denominational fires.
IT is generally understood at Washing
ton that General John G. Parke will sue
coed General Merritt, in command of the
Military Academy at West Point. Gener-
al Par5e commanded the Ninth army
of the war.
COLONEL SwITzLER, chief the Bureau of
Statistics, is pressing forward as energet-
ically as possible the work of collecting
materials for his contemplated report in
regard to the commerce of the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers, and of the bridges which
cross them.
IN the police court at Brockton, Mass,
on the 25th, the ex.Rev. Arthur Morrison,
of West idgewater, was arraigned
on two charges. The first was
that of stealing team valued at $500 in
Baltimore, and the latter for carrying con-
cealed weapons.
STARTLING rumors are current at Wen
ma of the discovery of Anarchist plots to
destroy the opera-house and numerous
factories at Pesth 1t is stated that only
the Ell IRENE vigilance of the police pre-
vented the conspirators from carrying
out their designs.
GEORGE GRAY, attorney for the Northern
Pacific railroad, is advised that the Cana
dian Pacific has begun to carry sugar
from the Pacific coast to st. Paul at much
lower rates than those which prevailed
on our trans-continental lines before the
order of suspension.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD has in
formed customs. Officers that imported or
reimported liquors withd rawn for con-
sumption after having been warehoused
are subject to duty on the quantity offered
for warehouse, and not on that ascer-
tanned on withdrawal for consumption.
INDIAN AGENT ANDERSON, at Grow
Creek, OAK, telegraphs Indian Commits
sioner Atkins that the people ordered
from the reservation are leaving quietly.
They seem, the agent says, pleased to be
relieved from suspense. No trouble is
feared, though the troops are still there.
The Judge who issued the warrant for
the arrest of Schnaebeles asserts that he
possesses convincing proof that Schnae-
hal bo of rfu Of